Max Hastings Quotes

Max Hastings — British Journalist born on December 28, 1945,

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL, FRHistS is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. His parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and war correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar... (wikipedia)

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.